For each question, if it asks for information about a company, write about each company your team is covering and make the report correspondingly longer. If it asks about something else, then just answer the question, and do not write a longer answer just because you have a bigger team.
Each member of the team should hand in a copy of your answers with his own name at the top. These copies can all be identical ---they can be xeroxes-- but each person must hand one in. The reason is that I would like each of you to have a copy of each of your assignments that you can refer to during and after the semester.
1. Find the following facts about your companies from the Million Dollar Directory in the Business/SPEA library, in the READY REFERENCE section, at call number HC102 D88.
How old is your company? Where is it incorporated? How many directors are there? How many of them are inside directors? (that is, officers of the corporation) What are its SIC codes? (SIC stands for ``Standard Industrial Classification.) What are the annual sales? How many employees does the company have?
2. Look back at the Ward's Business Directory, which contains some of the same information. Which facts are the same in both directories? Do the two sources ever have contradictory information?
3. Use Netscape to find the ``Hoover's Online!'' site at http://www.hoovers.com/. Look up your company. Are the sales and employment figures the same as in the other two sources?
4. Give what you think are the best answers to the questions in part (1), given what you have discovered, and explain why you think those are the best answers.
For each fact, give citations with page numbers. For a website, the citation style should be:
Infomatic Incorporated, ``Famous Business Web Page,'' http://www.hisinfo.com/best.html, as of January 11, 1999.
Note that this citation gives a date as well as a web address. That is because web pages change, so it is useful to your readers to know the date of your information.
Do this for all the companies in your team. If you like, you can subdivide the task, and, for example, make one person a data organizer, another an analyzer, and a third a writer. You are all responsible, however, for the results, and all of you will want to go to the library and check on how to find the data, even if the data organizer goes first.